4077 – Scrying Device

Physical description:

Angelic Scrying Device - A wooden frame with a crystal ball (one half of it painted gold) fitted into a hole in the middle. The wooden frame is painted black, pointed on the top with a diamond-shaped finial, and with a turned wooden base. Written on it in gold are Angel Names and the Sacred Name of God Tetragrammaton. There is also a wooden disc with various names and sigils, which the device stands on.

Museum classification:

Divination

Size:

370 x 155 x 90

Information:

Made by an occultist in Italy in 2020. He says -

'Johannes Trithemius was a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath who was active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. He had considerable influence on the development of early modern and modern occultism. His students included Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus.

The instrument I reproduced refers to Trithemius's Theurgy understood as an evocation of spirits through the crystal sphere. It was conceived and described by Francis Barrett in the book "The Magus", edited in London in 1801. The book presents itself as a complete treatise on magical doctrines and systematically collects the works of occultists from previous centuries.'

Resource:

Object

Materials:

Oak wood support, crystal ball (glass) is half coated with gold leaf.

Made by an occultist in Italy in 2020. He says -

'Johannes Trithemius was a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath who was active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. He had considerable influence on the development of early modern and modern occultism. His students included Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus.

The instrument I reproduced refers to Trithemius's Theurgy understood as an evocation of spirits through the crystal sphere. It was conceived and described by Francis Barrett in the book "The Magus", edited in London in 1801. The book presents itself as a complete treatise on magical doctrines and systematically collects the works of occultists from previous centuries.'